Prepaid cellular price cuts
Vodacom recently announced two new prepaid packages, offering subscribers savings of up to 35%. Vodacom’s ‘All Day’ prepaid package will offer call rates of 3.1c per second for all calls to Vodacom, Neotel and Telkom. Calls to all other networks will be charged at 3.3c per second.
The Vodacom ‘All Day’ prices are significantly lower than the standard Vodacom 4u prepaid peak call rate of R 2.85 per minute which translates into 4.8c per second. The Vodacom 4u prepaid off-peak call rate of R 1.30 per minute to MTN & Cell C (2.2c per minute) and R 1.12 per minute to Telkom and Vodacom (1.9c per minute) is however cheaper than the new service.
Vodacom’s second new prepaid package, ‘Per Second Plus’, is focusing on lower rates for Off-Peak calls. Off-Peak calls to Vodacom, Telkom and Neotel will cost 2c per second while Off-Peak calls to other networks will cost 2.2c per second. The price increases to 4c per second and 4.8c per second respectively during peak hours.
These new Vodacom prepaid offerings will be available from 1 October and migration to these packages will be free of charge.
The new prepaid offerings from South Africa’s largest mobile operators comes shortly after MTN announced that it has cut the price of its PayAsYouGo service to 2c per minute for on-net calls from 7pm to 7am.
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